Miley Cyrus' Father: Hannah Montana 'Destroyed My Family'

In an interview for GQ magazine's March issue, Miley Cyrus' father Billy Ray says he wishes Disney channel's "Hannah Montana" had never happened.

"The damn show destroyed my family," an anguished Billy Ray told GQ's Chris Heath.

The interview which took place five days after a video surfaced on the internet showing Miley taking a salvia hit from a bong.

Billy Ray blames Miley's handlers for the teen star's frequent derailments, and laments their proclivity to hold him responsible for his daughter's transgressions.

"Every time the train went off the track . . . her people, or as they say in today's news, her handlers, every time they'd put [the blame on] me . . . I took it because I'm her daddy . . . OK, nail me to the cross.

"I'm scared for her. She's got a lot of people around her that's putting her in a great deal of danger. I want to get her sheltered from the storm."

Clarifying as to why he did not attend Miley's 18th birthday party at Trousdale in LA, Billy says:

"You know why I didn't go? Because they were having it in a bar. It was wrong. It was for 21 years old and up . . . all them people, they all wanted me to fly out so that then when all the bad press came they could say, 'Daddy endorsed this stuff.' I started realizing I'm being used."

Following the leak of the bong video, Billy Ray says he confronted one of Miley's handlers over the incident, only to be told "it was none of my business."

Billy Ray, who is in the midst of divorcing Miley's mother Tish, does take responsibility for not being a more assertive parent:

"I should have said, 'Enough is enough -- it's getting dangerous and somebody's going to get hurt' . . . Honestly, I didn't know the ball was out of bounds until it was way up in the stands somewhere."